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Karen Flynn, Assistant Professor

911 S. Sixth
Champaign, IL 61820
Email: kcflynn@illinois.edu

2003: Ph.D. Women's Studies York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995: Masters Degree, History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1993: Bachelors Degree, History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

2008-present: Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2004-present: Assistant Professor, Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
2003-04: Director, Women’s Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, St. Cloud State University
2001-2004: Assistant Professor, Women' Studies Program, St. Cloud State University

“Beyond the Glass Wall: Black Canadian Nurses, 1940-1970,” Nursing History Review, Vol 17, 2009.
“Spoken Word from the North: Contesting Nation, Politics and Identity,” with Evelyn Marrast, Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas, Vol 11: 2 Spring 2008.
“I’m glad that someone is telling the nursing story: Writing Black Women’s History,” Journal of Black Studies, vol 38:3 (January 2008).
“Nothing to Write Home About:Immigration: Caribbean Canadian daughters, Mothers and Migration," with Cindy-Lou Henwood,Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Vol 2:2, 2000.
“Gender History, Women’s History, Women's Studies and Lost Subjects,” Special Issue: Feminism and Canadian History 25th Anniversary volume I, Volume 25:1, 2000.

“In England We Did Nursing: The Experiences of Caribbean and British Nurses in Great Britain and Canada,” with Margaret Shkimba, in Susan McGann and Barbara Mortimer eds., New Directions in the History of Nursing: International Perspectives, London: Routledge Press, 2005.
"Resistance and Agency Among Caribbean and Canadian Black Nurses," in Sophie Harding, ed., Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: Health/Healing/Herstory, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005.
"Experience and Identity: Black Women Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980, in Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Frances Swyripa eds., Sisters or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
“Race, the State and Caribbean Immigrant Nurses, 1950-1965” in Georgina Feldberg et al., Women, Health and Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.

Moving Beyond Borders: Black Women in the Diaspora. (Book-length Manuscript, Under contract, University of Toronto Press).
Strong Women, Dangerous Times: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa, co-edited with Ezekiel Kalipeni and Cynthia Pope, New York: Nova Science Publisher (forthcoming, 2009).
"’We Must Do Whatever It Takes’”: Promoting and Sustaining Black Canadian women’s health in Toronto,” with Audrey Taylor, in Strong Women, Dangerous Times: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa (forthcoming, 2009).